About the book: 2024 / “Akhmatova discovered Brodsky to Russia, but I discovered him to the West,” wrote George L. Kline, translator of the Nobel laureate’s poems, Slavist and professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. The book by Cynthia L. Haven is a story about the joint work of Kline and Brodsky based on conversations with the translator and his personal archive. George Cline's memoirs about the author of "Parts of Speech" and "Urania" cover the period from his acquaintance with the poet in 1967 until almost Brodsky's death; Some of the memoirist's evidence is unique. The book introduces the reader to the circumstances of the publication of Brodsky's first English-language collection, Selected Poems, which significantly influenced his literary career in the West, and also reconstructs the history of the subsequent relationship between the poet and the translator. The book additionally includes both poems by Brodsky and Thomas Venclova, translated by George L. Kline, and several poetic congratulations from the translator himself addressed to Brodsky. Cynthia L. Haven is a philologist, journalist, and author of the book “The Evolution of Desire. The Life of Rene Girard", published in "UFO».